House quotes and words of wisdom

"A little house well filled, A little field well tilled, And a little wife well willed, Are great riches."
Benjamin Franklin


"Frodo was now safe in the Last Homely House east of the Sea. That house was, as Bilbo had long ago reported, a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep, or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear and sadness."
John Ronald Reuel "J. R. R." Tolkien


"HOUSELESS, adj. Having paid all taxes on household goods."
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce


"I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any."
Mahatma Gandhi


"People who live in glass houses shouldn"t."
J. S. Singer


"Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!"
Edna St. Vincent Millay


"Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark."
Steven Wright


"The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman."
Proverb


"What is the use of a house if you haven"t got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
Henry David Thoreau


Interesting Quotes

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.Mahatma Gandhi - Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)

Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature.Phillip Lubin